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Macmillan Cancer Support’s Biggest “Thank You”
No words are spoken in this emotionally charged video, but the raw feelings of the six people it features are stripped bare as they read poignant and touching messages of thanks sent by from friends and loved ones suffering from cancer which have been published on the...
My Boxing Day boardwalk at Wicken Fen
I was keen to try out my new Scarpa walking boots today, so we headed for the nearby Wicken Fen nature reserve this morning where we found many like-minded souls with no interest in the Christmas sales. Our Boxing Day walk was a mere stroll compared to what I am used...
Let’s have some Merry Christmas cheer!
Am I the only one who misses Christmas carols being played in our shopping centres and stores? Instead, the festive atmosphere is silent and sombre and I miss feeling that warm glow inside when I hear those lovely carols. No doubt political correctness is to blame,...
The 70th birthday Stephen Hawking symposium
I feel extremely privileged to be able to attend a symposium to mark the 70th birthday of physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, a brilliant cosmologist acclaimed globally whose life has surpassed medical expectations. The remarkable Prof Hawking was told in 1963 that...
Government reforms ignore trans-racial adoption
It's the best Christmas news for any child languishing in care and waiting to be placed with loving, adoptive parents - the announcement today that the government is replacing its crippling bureaucratic process with a new system. Proposals include forming an expert...
Downgraded by Ticketmaster
I am still waiting to hear back from Ticketmaster after they double booked the Katherine Jenkins concert tickets I purchased several weeks ago as a Christmas present for my music loving pa--in-law. I had an email from them last week offering an upgrade, so I wasn't...
Have you tried dowsing?
This was the first video I ever recorded and edited, it was very much a test video, and surprisingly it remains my most successful on YouTube, with almost 42,000 hits and 73 comments. Not bad for a trial run! I recorded a dowsing demonstration at one of my favourite...
Families describe losing loved ones to sepsis
I am struck by the generous selflessness of bereaved families who genuinely do not want others to suffer like them after losing loved ones - especially from deaths which they believe were preventable. They have offered to provide case studies about their traumatic...
Jeffrey Archer’s auctioneering tips – how to get money from the rich
Many charities in the UK are £42 million richer thanks to the auctioneering skills of Jeffrey Archer. Today he shared his tips about how to get money from the rich at a fundraising conference on this theme. In the last 30 years, Jeffrey's "hobby" has become...